The singer-songwriter covers the March issue of British GQ,and has spoken quite candidly about his musical competition:

"There are a lot of singer-songwriters around now. I'm not the first but there are more than before. I'm very happy for everyone to be in the same race as me, even if they copy every single thing I've done. In a 100m sprint to get a No1 album, I just know I'm going to win."

Adele is the only person who has sold more records than him in the past ten years [citation needed. Really, though, because Wikipedia tells me Taylor Swift's 1989 sold over 9 million while Sheeran's 'X' sold 7.9 million...]. "She's the only person I need to sell more records than...I'm not in competition [creatively] because we all sit in our own lanes, but once the creative product is out there is a race to the finish line."

Both he and Taylor weren't popular in school so they attribute this to their drive to become the biggest male/female artist in the world.

-There a new short story or novella from George R.R. Martin this year.

-According to Amazon, it is called "Book of Swords" and will be released this October the description for the book says “a new story from George R. R. Martin set in the world of A Game of Thrones!”

-The story’s specific subject matter is a mystery but people think that it might be an excerpt from Fire and Blood (nicknamed the GRRMarillion), Martin’s comprehensive history of House Targaryen.

SOURCEi can't help but think of the obvious shade D&D threw at GRRM awhile ago, and while D&D may not be as talented, he really should have taken their advice on one matter:

"One practical thing we’ve learned as writers is how to work almost anywhere. We had specific, persnickety routines, before. This chair, this coffee mug, this time of day. When we started Thrones, it quickly became apparent that our old ways of working would prevent us from getting the scripts done on time, and that this in itself could destroy the show. So we got better at working wherever we were, whenever we could. And that’s been really helpful, realizing that what we thought we “needed” to work effectively was really just a kind of magical thinking, and that we could get words down anywhere. They weren’t always good words. They often needed to be rewritten, and rewritten again. But they fed the machine, and kept things moving".

Lindsay met with Bana Alabed, the seven year old girl from Aleppo whose tweets about experiencing the crisis there captured the attention of people all over the world and who ended up safely making it Turkey with her family, and Turkish president Recep Erdogan at the Turkish presidential palace. They were wearing buttons referencing Erdogan's "the world is bigger than five" quote.

Uma Thurman was granted primary custody of her four-year-old daughter Luna on Friday. Her ex, financier Arpad Busson, will get monthly visitation.

It marks the end of an ugly custody battle that saw Busson accuse Thurman of mixing alcohol with medications for mental illness, and saw Thurman accuse Busson of being addicted to prostitutes, of having an explosive temper, and of leaving Luna with another one of his exes (model Elle Macpherson) when he had visitation with her.

Busson was forced to admit under oath that he had offered to sign away all legal rights to Luna if Thurman would agree not to seek child support.

Hussein Hassan is an Iraqi film director who had hoped to attend the Miami Film Festival to support his film Reseba — The Dark Wind

Withdrew visa application and will not travel to America as an act of "peaceful protest"

The festival will continue with the screening and offered this statement: One of Miami Film Festival’s core values is to bridge cultural understanding, to provoke thought and discussion, and ‘The Dark Wind’ is one of the most timely, moving, and important films in this year’s festival. It is essential that roadblocks not be put in place that will prevent artists from the free discussion of their work, and equally essential that the world’s artists are made to feel welcome in the United States.

Riverdale lost a bit of it's Supernatural lead in and only brought in 1.37 million viewers and .5 in the demo which is comparable to both Frequency and No Tomorrow's series premiere ratings. Neither of those shows were renewed.

ABC mightily won the night. Grey's Anatomy's ratings beat its own season premiere. Scandal scored a demo rating that they haven't achieved since last year's midseason premiere. And it managed to give How to Get Away with Murder a boost as well.

Around 8 million viewers tuned into CBS for their Mary Tyler Moore tribute.

NBC only had reruns, and FOX did okay with their reality competition shows.

The Hollywood Reporter is stating that celebrated actor Sir John Hurt passed away today at the age of 77. Hurt had previously been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015.

Hurt had previously been nominated for an Academy Award for his performances in The Elephant Man and Midnight Express and had roles in both the small and big screen that have a big part in popular culture having been part of Alien (in one of the most iconic scenes of cinematic history), Harry Potter, Indiana Jones and Doctor Who to name a few.

He had on more than one occasion joked about his many on screen deaths (the original Sean Bean) stating “I think I’ve got the record. It got to a point where my children wouldn’t ask me if I died, but rather how do you die?”

He is survived by his wife and his two sons, Sasha (26) and Nick (23).

-EP Todd Slavkin says "as we've done with all the episodes you’ve seen, we've always had our own spin on everything, and Sebastian is no different."-Reported as being 'truly chilling'.-Will Tudor is better known as 'Odi', William Hurt's qt carer synth/android in Channel 4's/AMC's Humans, he was also on Game of Thrones.-Sebastian will be recurring in Season 2B, to air later this year.

Are you excited about this casting, ONTD ShadowFam? If you haven't seen 'Humans', go watch!Beware of Book Spoilers in comments - however it isn't known what or how much will be changed for the show, so.

This is a pretty nifty interview. It doesn’t actually give any plot/spoilers away and doesn’t say anything we haven’t been talking about for ages, but it still feels substantial. A satisfying read that gets me pumped for Sunday!

“But also you see with Silver, it’s a tragedy because what has he become?” Stephens counters. “He becomes this sad sort of guy who ends up in Treasure Island, kind of conniving his way back to this place. Everybody else has died, the golden age of piracy is over, and he fails to get the treasure. He fails to get what he wants. And also what this series sort of tries to create is why does he want the treasure? Is it purely for avarice, is it purely self-serving, or are there other motives for that?”[...]“He’s someone who never wanted to have someone to rely on or anybody to rely on him, and by the fourth season, everyone relies on him. He’s at the center of this war, and not only in a responsibility way, but in an emotional way… He’s the one who has to start picking sides.”[...]Both performers share a similar sentiment: It’ll be hard to come by an experience like this again as an actor. Arnold particularly noted that it’s a rare thing, especially in television, for an actor to walk away feeling like he did everything he wanted to do with a character or personal journey—that it is all on the table and the screen.[...]For Stephens, conversely, it’s about letting his character’s aspirations—both of a virtuous and sinful nature—reach their natural conclusion when things come to a head.Remarking on Flint’s need for independence, the actor says, “The complexity of it is that it’s not really for altruistic reasons, or exclusively for altruistic reasons. It’s really his own psychodrama he’s playing out and his own kind of revenge, and you know that it’s not going to end well, but I hope that the fans will be happy with the way of seeing it come to its climax.”

For those of you who are squeamish about vague hints that miiiight be spoilery (?), don’t read past this past paragraph. I’m touchy abt spoilers but I didn’t think it counts as one, but I know some of you guys are even more wary than me, so. Be warned.

And a cute video about memorable fan interactions!

The best is def the guy who painstakingly grew out his hair and beard like Flint’s, just before he shaved it off in S3 lmao.

A fan also spotted that Silver now has a tiny braid! Getting properly into the pirate aesthetic.

Nothing new to see here really, but Luke's hair is perf as always and I just now noticed Madi is part of the Billy/Flint showdown scene. Hope she gets to knock their heads together, it'd be so satisfying.